Re:Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2
by azalemeth on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:11PM
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I recently bought an air con unit. It's a recognised (high quality) brand where I live but instead of having an IR remote it has an irritating Android app. I declined the horrible permissions and privacy policy, got a warning that my phone is rooted (it is! Why should AC care?!) and promptly uninstalled it.
Claude managed to RE that surprisingly well. I didn't use the words "decompiled" once, but it that when given the APK. It's a Tuya Wifi module that requires a lot of network access and I'm very unlikely to ever use it. Fortunately there's a lot of Tuya compatible code on GitHub and a community of people expressing a desire to get it into home assistant, including by reflashing the firmware or using as separate esp32 uC to talk over spi and uart to the actual controller.
I'll have a dive at some point. Everything else in my home is zigbee. I wish this was too.
Claude managed to RE that surprisingly well. I didn't use the words "decompiled" once, but it that when given the APK. It's a Tuya Wifi module that requires a lot of network access and I'm very unlikely to ever use it. Fortunately there's a lot of Tuya compatible code on GitHub and a community of people expressing a desire to get it into home assistant, including by reflashing the firmware or using as separate esp32 uC to talk over spi and uart to the actual controller.
I'll have a dive at some point. Everything else in my home is zigbee. I wish this was too.